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brother, Dr. G. G. Shumard, had Drought from the white limestone 

 of the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico were, at 

 fn h N™wMexico rmian * east m P art ' identical with the Permian fossils of 

 Kansas. This is referred to elsewhere (p. 485). Sub- 

 sequently the supposed Permian was recognized in Illinois by Hall 

 from fossils sent to him by Worthen. 



In the American Journal of Science for May of the year following 



(1859), Meek and Hayden had a paper on the so-called Triassic rocks 



of Kansas and Nebraska, in which they expressed the opinion '"that 



the entire scries from near the top of the lower Per- 



Meek and Hayden on ,. -r» • a it i i -\/r i r 



Triassic in Kansas niiau ot Professor Swallow s and Mr. Hawn s sections, 

 down even lower than the horizon where they draw 

 their line between the Coal Measures and the Permian, should be 

 regarded most nearly related to the Carboniferous and might well lie 

 called Permo-Carboniferon>." This view for some time prevailed, but 

 recent work has shown that beds, the equivalent of the true European 

 Permean, are present in Kansas, Nebraska, the Guadalupe Mountains, 

 and perhaps in other parts of the West as well. 



Information regarding the geology of Texas up to this date (1858) 

 had been gradually accumulating through the work of geologists con- 

 nected with the various exploring expeditions, and more particularly 

 through Ferdinard Roemer's publications. Roemer, it 



B. F.Shumard's , ,, i n i 



Geological Survey of may be well to remark, was a German who came to 



Texas, 1858. . J . . . _ t K , ,. , . . . . 



America in lslo for the purpose ot geological explora- 

 tion, and passed a year and a half in active work in Texas. The most 

 important of his publications, the outcome of this work, was his Die 

 Kreidebildungen von Texas, und ihre organischen Einschliisse, Bonn, 

 1852 — a large quarto' of 100 pages of text and 11 plates of invertebrate 

 fossils. In 1858 the first attempt at a systematic survey under State 

 auspices was attempted, and Dr. B. F. Shumard, whose paleontological 

 work in connection with explorations under Capt. R. B. Marcy and 

 Colonel Pope have been already noted, was appointed State geologist. 

 Shumard served, through much trial and tribulation, only to 1860, 

 when he was suspended for political reasons/' and Dr. Francis M. 

 Moore, who had been one of his assistants, appointed in his place. 



a Austin, Aprils, 1860. 

 My Dear M. : Your kind letter reached me to-day, and I can not sufficiently thank 

 you for the friendly feeling that prompted you to write it and for the course you 

 have taken in refusing testimonials to the aspirant who desires to supplant me in 

 the place I now occupy. I shall speak to you unreservedly, for I have had too many 

 assurances of your friendship to doubt it. Of the qualifications of the person alluded 

 to, to take charge of a work so important as the survey of this State, I need not 

 inform you. What he knows of geology has not been gathered from study, but 

 from conversations with geologists. Thus he at first made the Coal Measures of Fort 

 Belknap Tertiary and wrote a long article which was published in the Texas papers! 

 He then took some of the same fossils that he relied upon to prove their Tertiary 



